J.S.Watts: Events

If you want to hear J.S.Watts reading her poetry and prose live, or attend one of her workshops, check out the events below.

2022 Readings and Events

Events are limited this year in terms of public readings and events because of COVID 19. Keep checking back from time to time as circumstances change.

Weds 10 Jan (poetry & photography) W.I Event (Private Event)

Sun 6 Feb 4pm - 5.10pm (prose) Fiction Fix online

FREE

Sun 20 Feb 1pm-4pm (prose) Three Local Authors - Book Signing Iron Horse Ranch House, High Street, Market Deeping PE6 8EB

FREE

Weds 2 Mar 7.30pm (story telling) True Stories Told Live Cambridge

Sat 7 May 2.30pm - 3pm (talk, poetry & prose) Hertfordshire Book Festival Panel Gazebo, Hertford Castle Grounds SG14 1HR FREE

also Author Market 11am - 4pm Author Market Stalls Hertford Castle Grounds

Sat 9 July 12 midday (poetry & prose) Oundle Fringe Festival - My Writing Life Oundle Library, Glapthorn Road, Oundle, PE8 4JA

Tues 19 July (poetry & photography) Possible W.I Event (Private Event)

Weds 7 Sept (poetry & photography) W.I Event (Private Event)

2021 Readings and Events

There is not much booked this year in terms of public readings and events because of COVID 19 and lockdown. Keep your fingers crossed and do check back from time to time in case circumstances improve.

Weds 21 Jan (poetry) W.I Event (Private Zoom Event)

Tues 31 Aug 7.30pm (prose) Interviewing the writer Annalisa Crawford on the launch of her online via Zoom "poignant and action packed" novel "Small Forgotten Moments"

Thurs 7 Oct 7pm (poetry) "Poems from Crow Country" - Celebrating National Poetry Day venue to be agreed nearer time in accordance with Baldock Library with COVID restrictions CANCELLED BY LIBRARY IN RESPONSE TO STAFF SICKNESS LEVELS

2020 Readings and Events

Sun 5 Jan 2-4pm (Workshop) 'Question Time' - Writers' Club Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23 £10 (£5 unwaged)

Sun 2 Feb 2-4pm (Workshop) 'Critiquing Session' - Writers' Club Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23 £10 (£5 unwaged)

Sun 2 Feb 8pm (Prose) Fiction Fix Samm's, 29 Bridge Street, Peterborough, PE1 1HA,
FREE

Sat 8 Feb 2.10pm (poetry) Verse Aid Poem-A-Thon The Society of Authors, 24 Bedford Row, London, WC1R 4EH FREE https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/JSWatts

Sun 1 Mar 2-4pm (Workshop) 'Self-Publishing with Julie Stock' - Writers' Club Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23 £10 (£5 unwaged)

Sun 1 Mar 8pm (Prose) Fiction Fix Argo Lounge, 7 Bridge St, Peterborough, PE1 1HJ
FREE

Tues 3 Mar 8pm (Talk, prose) Book Night at the Courtyard The Courtyard, Pendrill Court, Ermine Street North, Papworth Everard, CB23 3UY
FREE

Weds 8 Apr 7.30pm (Poetry) Sudbury Cafe Poets Quaker Meeting House, 22 Friars Street, Sudbury, Suffolk CANCELLED IN RESPONSE TO COVID 19

Sun 3 May 2-4pm (Workshop) Writers' Club Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23 ~~£10 (£5 unwaged)~~ WRITERS' CLUB IS CANCELLED IN RESPONSE TO COVID 19 UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

~~Thurs 7 May 7pm (Poetry) Launch of #2, Fenland Poetry Journal Wisbech Castle Vaults~~   CANCELLED IN RESPONSE TO COVID 19
Sat 4 July tbc (Talk, poetry +) Details to Follow Hertfordshire
CANCELLED IN RESPONSE TO COVID 19

Sun 5 July 2-4pm (Workshop) "Character" - Writers' Club online via Zoom
Funded by donation

Sun 2 Aug 2-4pm (Workshop) "Point of View" - Writers' Club   online via Zoom
£5

Sun 6 Sept 2-4pm (Workshop) "Marketing - a personal perspective" - Writers' Club   online via Zoom
£5

Sunday 11 October 4-5pm (Prose) Fiction Fix online

FREE

Weds 16 Dec 7.30pm (Poetry) Fen Speak online
FREE

2019 Readings and Events

Sun 6 Jan 2-4pm (Workshop) 'Beginnings' - Writers' Club   Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23
£10 (£5 unwaged)

Sat 19 Jan 11am (Talk, poetry +) Society of Authors Talks - My Writing Life Croxley Green Library, Barton Way, Croxley Green, Herts WD3 3HB.
FREE

Sun 27 Jan 8pm (Poetry)   Draper's Arms Poetry Gig    The Draper's Arms, 29-31 Cowgate, Peterborough, PE1 1LZ.
FREE

Thurs 31 Jan 7.30pm (Poetry) Spoken Word Southern Maltings, Kibes Lane, Ware, Herts., SG12 7BS
FREE

Weds 6 Feb 8pm (Talk, poetry+) Book Night at the Courtyard The Courtyard, Pendrill Court, Ermine Street North, Papworth Everard, CB23 3UY
FREE

Thurs 21 Feb 7pm (Talk, poetry+)   Society of Authors Talks - Writing & Me Hertford Library, Dolphin Yard, Maidenhead Street, Hertford, SG14 1DR
£3

Sun 3 Mar 2-4pm (Workshop) 'The Middle' - Writers' Club Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23

£10 (£5 unwaged)

Fri 8 Mar 7.30pm (Poetry) Waterlight: a Journey Down the River Mel Melbourn Hub, 30 High St., Melbourn, Cambs., SG8 6DZ

£6

Weds 20 Mar 8pm (Poetry) Poetry Swaps Cellar Bar, Stamford Arts Centre, 27 St Mary's Street, Stamford, Lincs., PE9 2DL
FREE

Sat 13 Apr 8pm (Poetry) Saturday Sound Stage at the Compasses The Compasses, High Street, Stansfield, Suffolk, CO10 8LN
FREE

Sun 5 May 2-4pm (Workshop) 'Editing and On-the-day Critique' - Writers' Club Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23

£10 (£5 unwaged)

Sat 25 May 2pm onwards (Poetry/Prose) Pando Festival Parkhall Road, Somersham, Huntingdon, PE28 3
(Ticketed Festival)

Sat 1 June 2.30pm approx (Poetry) Strawberry Fair Wild Strawberries Stage, Eastern Bloco, Midsummer Common, Cambridge

FREE

Fri 21 June 8pm (Poetry) Words Without Frontiers The Ellen Terry Suite, Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre, Stevenage, Herts.,
£6

Sun 7 July 2-4pm (Workshop) 'Narrator' - Writers' Club Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23

£10 (£5 unwaged)

Sun 4 Aug 2-4pm (Workshop) 'Ideas & Appropriation/Fiction from Reality" - Writers' Club Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23

£10 (£5 unwaged)

Thurs 5 Sept 7pm (Prose) Vanguard Readings @ Harlow Playhouse Harlow Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1LS
FREE

Sun 8 Sept 7pm (Poetry) Sunday Night Lives The Flying Pig, 106 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1LQ

FREE

Sat 19 Oct 10.30am (Talk, poetry+) Hertfordshire Writers Talks - Writing and Me Buntingford Library, 77 High Street, Buntingford, Herts, SG9 9AE
£2

Sun 3 Nov 2-4pm (Workshop) 'What's in a Name?' - Writers' Club Twisted Cellar, 30 South St, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23

£10 (£5 unwaged)

J.S.Watts with John Tarrow at the Herts Book Festival in Hertford, May 2022

J.S.Watts reading at Stevenage Festival, June 2019 as part of Parnassus poetry (photo with thanks to Chris Ripple)

J.S.Watts reading at The 1000 Monkeys, Guildford - 4th June 2018

(Photograph by Janice Dempsey)

J.S.Watts reading at the Feminist Poetry Jamboree, "Holding The Line", Kings Cross, London - 8th April 2017

(Photograph by Cathy Pyle)

J.S.Watts reading at the book launch for "Years Ago You Coloured Me" - 29th March 2016

J.S.Watts performing at Beast and Bards, Cambridge - 21st February 2015

(photograph by Matt Widgery)

J.S.Watts performing at Rhythms of the World, Hitchin - 2nd August 2014

J.S.Watts reading at Scribal Gathering, Stony Stratford - March 2013

J.S.Watts reading at the Winter Into Spring event in support of Bassingbourn Book Cafe - 10th February 2012

J.S.Watts reading in Royston Library as part of the 2011 Royston Arts Festival - 30th September 2011